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• On the post: NRA: Games To Blame For Violence! Also, Here's A Shooting Game For 4-Year-Olds!

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2013 @ 08:37pm

  Re: Re:

  Actually, you called it a "weak distinction", not a "big difference".

• On the post: Official White House Position: We're Not Building A Death Star

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2013 @ 03:02pm

  Re: Re:

  Maybe it's bigger on the inside?
  
  Wait, sorry, wrong show.

• On the post: Official White House Position: We're Not Building A Death Star

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2013 @ 01:31pm

  Sense of humor is right.

  We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.

  
  That was pretty funny.

• On the post: IBM Researcher Feeds Watson Supercomputer The 'Urban Dictionary'; Very Quickly Regrets It

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2013 @ 11:12am

  That old parenting joke

  You spend the first two years teaching your kid how to walk and talk, and spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut up.

• On the post: Racist Apps In Google's Play Store Test Just How Free You Want Speech To Be

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 10:23am

  Re: Racist or just having fun with differences?

  I suppose it depends on how you take it.
  
  "Look how funny/stupid I look when I look like a [racist word here]!" rather than "Interesting how I might have looked like with more Asian/African/etc. genes."
  
  I don't know how the app presents it, either. If we assume "neutrally" (i.e., "Give yourself Asian features"), then the racism would be entirely in the user's mind.
  
  The intent of these apps is only in the mind of the developer(s), so unless they come out and tell us, we can only guess. Some will choose to guess the worst case.

• On the post: Opera About Walt Disney Refused Permission To Use Disney Images

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 12:15pm

  "Forced"?

  I'm confused. The article says the opera was "forced" to tell the story without the official images, but then it quotes the director as saying they were never going to use the images in the first place.
  
  The quote makes it sound like Disney just wanted to flex its muscles and say "NOT ENDORSED BY US" when the opera didn't look for their approval in the first place.

• On the post: Dad Hires Digital Assassins To Murder His Son (Digitally)

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2013 @ 12:17pm

  Re: There's a service to start

  New Xbox Live Message
  From: xX Jimmy Hoffa Xx
  Message:
  That's a nice Spartan you've created there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it. We can protect him for 800MSP a month.

• On the post: Dad Hires Digital Assassins To Murder His Son (Digitally)

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2013 @ 12:14pm

  Re:

  Perhaps, but that can backfire. His son might have looked at his father as a meddling interloper in his hobby, making him more defiant and more determined to keep spending his time on the computer.
  
  Instead, his father tried to alter his son's experience in his virtual world, to make his son no longer want to play.
  
  Now, his son has found out his father was behind it, so he may end up going back to play anyway, but it does appear at least to have encouraged his son to stop and think about what was going on and why.

• On the post: Sony Patent Application Takes On Used Game Sales, Piracy With Embedded RFID Chips In Game Discs

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2013 @ 09:39am

  Re: Re:

  I noticed recently that Castle Crashers was released on Steam; it's a fun game but I refuse to buy and play it because of my experience with it on the XBox 360. A friend of mine bought it for his 360 and we'd throw down 4-player on the weekends. His XBox died from the red ring of death and he moved his HDD to his new XBox. We couldn't play multiplayer anymore. Each XBox Live account needed to own the game, or it had to be the original system it was bought for.

  
  
  Microsoft provides a "license transfer tool" so that you can change the "original system it was bought for" to the new system, and everyone can play again.
  
  While I agree that this is an annoying step that only exists because of the DRM, and it would never happen with a game on a disc, at least there is a way to correct the problem yourself.

• On the post: Sony Patent Application Takes On Used Game Sales, Piracy With Embedded RFID Chips In Game Discs

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2013 @ 09:09am

  Re: Re:

  Downloadable titles are usually far cheaper and have different expectations than a physical purchase.

  
  
  For the XBLA titles, typically yes. For the "Games on Demand", though, they tend to have similar prices as the physical counterparts, and their prices don't degrade with time like the physical products in the free market. Even though I tend to buy my games new, I still will buy the physical disc over the digital download.

• On the post: Sony Patent Application Takes On Used Game Sales, Piracy With Embedded RFID Chips In Game Discs

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2013 @ 09:05am

  Re: Tim, Tim, Tim...

  It's actually my hope that they will actively go after anyone else who tries this. Rumor has it Microsoft is planning on doing something similar in the next Xbox (although I haven't seen anything describing how it might happen yet).
  
  If they do happen to implement it in the next PlayStation, hopefully word will get out and sales will dry up in response. Although they'll probably just attribute the lack of sales to piracy again....

• On the post: Razer Updates Synapse Software With Better 'Offline Mode,' Other Problematic 'Features' Remain Unchanged

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2013 @ 02:47pm

  Re:

  If only it applied to their universal remotes....

• On the post: University Utilizing Faulty Irony Detector Censors Flyer Protesting Its Censorship Policy

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2012 @ 08:55am

  Re: Re: What Did Our Founding Fathers Use For Profanity

  Smurf you.

• On the post: NYC Artist Satirizes Law Enforcement Drone Program; Gets Book Thrown At Him By NYPD

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 03:29pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Not sure what you're getting at here. I'm just saying the comment "who honestly did nothing more than make more New Yorkers more aware of their PD's tactics" is leaving out the fact that he (allegedly) broke into someone else's property to do it. He is not "honestly doing nothing more than making a public statement" -- in fact, the way he did it was fairly dishonest.
  
  I did not defend the charges the NYPD are bringing against him.

• On the post: NYC Artist Satirizes Law Enforcement Drone Program; Gets Book Thrown At Him By NYPD

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 11:10am

  Re:

  Exactly. This artist isn't quite as innocent as Tim would have us believe. You are free to speak your mind; you are not free to break into property to promote that speech.
  
  But, to be sure, I don't believe he's nearly as guilty as the NYPD would have us believe, either.

• On the post: Universal Studios Sues Over Porn Parody Of '50 Shades Of Grey'; Ignoring 50 Shade's Own History As Fan Fiction

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2012 @ 10:04am

  Re:

  You leave his private life out of this. If Mike wants to dress up like an MPAA lobbyist and role-play with his partner dressed as a pirate, moaning "Infringe my IP, baby" in ecstasy in the privacy of his own bedroom, that's none of your business.

• On the post: Open Letter To Human Synergistics International In Response To Your Accusation That Techdirt Is Infringing

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 03:26pm

  This won't work for everyone

  TechDirt is a successful blog. This manner of connecting with fans only work because there is a substantial following already. For a smaller blog that doesn't have as large a fanbase established, this would never be an appropriate avenue for success.

• On the post: German Court Holds Internet User Responsible For Passing On Unknown, Encrypted File

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 11:31am

  Re: Post office

  You don't even have to use an analogy. In this case, the ISP(s) that routed the encrypted file from its source to the defendant also "passed on" the file, so they should also be liable by this ruling, for any and all file transfers on their network.

• On the post: Megaupload Helped DOJ In NinjaVideo Prosecution; And DOJ Uses That Against Megaupload

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2012 @ 11:48am

  Re:

  So, are you saying he must be guilty of something since he's been arrested? Guilty until proven innocent? There must be some evidence against him, otherwise they wouldn't hold him?
  
  Because, you know, a government organization would readily admit its mistake and release any seized or forfeited assets, rather than unlawfully infringe on another's rights, just like they've always done.(SarcMark?)

• On the post: Megaupload Helped DOJ In NinjaVideo Prosecution; And DOJ Uses That Against Megaupload

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2012 @ 11:38am

  Plenty of room in there

  But pretty much every discovery since then has suggested that they only had strong evidence in their minds...

  
  Seems to be plenty of empty space in there to store all the "evidence".

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